Notes on Hebrews Four Twelve

Why is the word ‘quick’ and ‘sharp’? And why does it ‘divide’? Because it divides the men from the boys when it comes to ‘rightly dividing the word of truth’ (see 2 Tim. 2:15). And it does so very evidently in this very chapter. The scholars and preachers lose their bearings when it comes the book of Hebrews (and for that manner also Matthew and Acts because they also are ‘transitional’ books). Now the Bible has to be rightly divided all throughout it: and the biggest way it is divided is by the covenants and dispensations (I suggest getting a Scofield KJV Study Bible to learn more about that). But here in Hebrews, the letter is addressed to HEBREWS. This is a general epistle towards the back of the Bible. Here the church age is over with and you are now in the tribulation; and God turns his attention again back to Israel. But how do you divide Hebrews Chapter 4? Well first, the “gospel” in Hebrews 4:2 is not the Pauline “gospel of Christ”! There are 10 different Gospels in the Bible and this was the Promise Land Gospel that if the Israelites whipped the giants they could posses the land of Canaan. (see Num. 13) Stupid Bible scholars jam all this together and think those Israelites had the same revelation we have. Their gospel involved faith and works. Remember the 10 Commandments? Our gospel is grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone. When the Holy Spirit inspired Paul to write Hebrews, the Holy Spirit was looking prophetically, not at the church age, but at the tribulation HEBREWS. And again in the tribulation it will be faith + works. Just read Rev. 12:17, 14:12, 22:14. Look at the “gospel” in Rev. 14:6: here again, “another gospel” (Gal. 1:6-9) is being preached; by an angel, which if it were in this dispensation, Paul would have cursed! This is why some Christians think works are a requirement for salvation; because they jam all this together. But again, the book of Numbers is not the church age, the book of Hebrews is not the church age, and the book of Revelation (other than the first 3 chapters) is not the church age! So when Paul said there remains a rest to the people of God in Hebrews 4:9, he is not talking about Gentile Christians (though we can certainly draw a spiritual application). But doctrinally the Spirit is talking about the millennial and sabbatical rest for 1,000 years for Israel when she is restored at the second coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. (cf. Isaiah 14:7) In Hebrews 4:9 the Holy Spirit is encouraging tribulation Jews to endure to the end of the tribulation (see Dan. 12:4; Matt. 24:13-14; Heb. 3:6, 14, 6:11) [that is one of the WORKS you have to keep if you are tribulation saint] until the Second Advent (Heb. 9:28, 10:37); because then they will ‘enter into rest’. It will be “the seventh day” (v. 4) of human history (cf. II Pet. 3:8). In Hebrews, the Holy Spirit is looking forward to “the world to come” (Heb. 2:5, 6:5).

And because the modern scholars and preachers don’t rightly divide the word of truth (and some of them don’t even have the word of truth because they’ve rejected the AV): the word of God CUTS THEM AS A SWORD! Hebrews 4:12 and Ephesians 6:17!

In Jesus Christ’s holy name, Amen.